Storm Lake Quotes

“Aldo Leopold, the great conservation philosopher, said: “We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
― Art Cullen, Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America's Heartland

“If they are willing to cross the Rio Grande and the Sonoran Desert to get to Storm Lake, that’s the kind of people we want.”
― Art Cullen, Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America's Heartland

“We learn to father from our fathers. I am not your friend, I am your father, and it is my obligation to teach you baseball and work, and to try to rein you in.”
― Art Cullen, Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America's Heartland